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Old 01-15-2019, 03:19 AM   #1
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Thumbs up World War II veteran gets 50,000 birthday cards after daughter's plea


A 96-year-old World War II veteran from California will be spending plenty of time with family going through a mountain of birthday cards, after a request from his daughter on Facebook went viral.


Sue Morse had put out a request for friends to send birthday wishes to her father and Purple Heart medal recipient Duane Sherman, expecting she would get maybe 160 cards.

Instead, he received over 50,000 from all over the world.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/world-war...daughters-plea
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Old 01-15-2019, 04:22 AM   #3
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When I was a kid , everyone my Grandfather's age and even 15 years
younger were all Vets of The Big One , as Archie Bunker would say.
Now that I am older , there are not many left.
The Big Bear is still here.



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Just think @ some point, some postal employee started throwing away that guys mail.
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The guy looks 20+ years younger than he is!

Glad to see he had a nice B-Day!
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It would be enlightening to sit down with that gentleman and hear some of his stories. Something I've done more of in recent years with old WWII vets over coffee or lunch. A few more years and their voices will be gone.
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It would be enlightening to sit down with that gentleman and hear some of his stories. Something I've done more of in recent years with old WWII vets over coffee or lunch. A few more years and their voices will be gone.
Yes sir MrKalashnikov the general consensus says the WWII Vets are gone. But not only longevity but lying about their age upon signing up has a lot and lot of them still around.
Geez recently at my V.A. I talked to quite a few of the old boys from B--29 pilots to grunts. Oh those heroes are still out their thank God. I see WWII caps all the time.
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